Lottery Jackpot: Etiquette for Becoming Embarrassingly Rich

Reply #18

jwhou — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:07:47 GMT

I would add that you may want to hire two independent financial advisors to audit each other and a private investigator to make certain they are not colluding.

Reply #17

eddessaknight — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:49:13 GMT

Consider: that we maybe entering a world where players just aren't interested in whether something is true or not, or whether they believe it or not, but whether it simply works!

May Fortuna smile upon on all-

EdessaKnight

Reply #16

rdgrnr — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:05:27 GMT

I've heard that a pompous, holier-than-thou attitude doesn't help much either.

Reply #15

jimjwright — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:33:27 GMT

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

-Thomas Jefferson

Jimmy

Reply #14

eddessaknight — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:15:54 GMT

Perhaps, chance (bonne chance) or luck is just a fool's word for fate ???

EddessaKnight

Reply #13

time*treat — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:20:29 GMT

They most likely won't invest the $100 in tickets or stay away.

Reply #12

jimjwright — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:44:07 GMT

So you can call it luck, I don't care, and yes I drive to Idaho to play.

Jimmy

Reply #11

GYM RICE — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:33:04 GMT

If the government makes you claim winnings as earnings, then I would treat it as money earned...You have to put money into the system to have a chance to get money back...Its no different then investing in a stock in some regards...Its all a gamble...

I don't think to many people are splitting up their 401K's and handing friends money just because however controlled their investments made better gambles then others...

Reply #10

eddessaknight — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:33:50 GMT

What you hold as truth often determines your reality.

EddessaKnight

Reply #9

JWBlue — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:33:20 GMT

My advice would be:

You don't owe anyone a dime. How much money you have is no ones business.

It is absurd to think a winner owes other people even a dime.

Reply #8

Nino224 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:52:25 GMT

My advice would be to read, The Book of No: 250 Ways to Say It And Mean It and Stop People-Pleasing Forever.

Then you can proceed.

Btw, don't be too eager to give these big charities money. There was a story recently on CBS News about how even in the best of cases just a few pennies from every dollar end up where they're needed. The rest goes to bloated salaries, and administrative costs. The head of United Way, for e.g., had a 300K salary and a 800K golden parachute.

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Reply #7

Coin Toss — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:36:27 GMT

More like the numbers your software program picked put were the numbers drawn because you just got lucky.

Also, if you do hit it obviously won't be in Utah.

Good Luck.

Reply #6

hearsetrax — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:21:45 GMT

Reply #5

jimjwright — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:30:10 GMT

No I don't think they will hit it with just $100, I would just want them to go away, but I will arm them with the same tools that I was using and stake them the first $100. It will be up to them after they blow thru the first $100 if they have stomach to keep playing a system that will lose much more often than you win. I agree with everything you said. Only when my system hits 5+0 twice would I consider it more skill than luck. Everyone can get lucky once, but if my system hit 5+0 or 5+1 on Pow... [ More ]

Reply #4

eddessaknight — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:56:10 GMT

Not to be cynical, but overly courteous people pleasers take notice:

You will never be loved if you can t risk being disliked.....

Good Weekend Wishes,

EddessaKnight

Reply #3

RJOh — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:38:31 GMT

Do you believe that once your program has picked a jackpot winner, it can do it again with only $100 worth of tickets? If your system/program is like any of the others I have read about, you will have spent a lot more than that by the time it wins and you may have to spend even more before it does it again. Most systems/programs don't pick the winning numbers but simply improve the player's odds of winning the jackpots and smaller prizes. I've never heard of one that improve the odds of winning... [ More ]

Reply #2

jimjwright — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:41:10 GMT

If I win the lottery it will be because of software that I wrote. So If people came a calling I would give them the software and $100 (upto the first 100 people) and wish them good luck.

Jimmy

Reply #1

rdgrnr — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:52:41 GMT

Thanks EdessaKnight,

I recently read a lot of horror stories about lottery winners and the problems they run into and invariably most of them stem from trying to help too many people or trying to keep everybody happy. It's good to hear something somewhat upbeat and informative after that.

That sounded like good advice to me. (Sorry, it's tied up in a trust fund and I just get an occasional allowance).

Thanks

Lottery Jackpot: Etiquette for Becoming Embarrassingly Rich

eddessaknight — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:32:36 GMT

Enjoy Miss Manners Q A : Etiquette for Becoming Embarrassingly Rich

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EddessaKnight

Dear Miss Manners,

Some friends and I were discussing what we would do in the unlikely event that any of us won the lottery, and find we need to appeal to you on one major question that came up. What is the etiquette involved in suddenly becoming embarrassingly rich?

Of course, we all agreed that none of us would flaunt it, but the fact remains that, even if one accepted the winnings ano... [ More ]